Improving Organisational Performance

1.Introduction 3
2. Business cases of Content and Code Ltd and Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd 3
2.1. Performance management systems 3
2.2. Communication 4
2.3. Engagement 4
2.4. Ensuring policies stack up 5
3. The practical difficulties, challenges, and implications encountered by the use of performance management/ high performance 6
3.1. Measuring/evaluating dimensions 6
3.2. Keeping leaders focused 7
3.3. Linking job descriptions to performance management 8
3.4. Implementing performance management for staff 9
3.5. Linking compensation to performance management 9
3.6. Matrix management and performance management 9
3.7. Keeping the system alive 10
4. Balanced proposals to curb practical difficulties/ challenges 10
5. Line managers 12
6. References 13

1. Introduction This paper is based on the a case study of two organisations based in the United Kingdom, this is in response to a research on their use of high performance work (HPW) and performance management (PM) practices (Aguinis, 2009). Research explores Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd and Content and Code Ltd both are companies from the United Kingdom. Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd is a food ingredient manufacturer producing fruit coulis and desserts among other baking products it is located in Glasgow and Stone haven. Content and Code Ltd is a business and IT solutions company mainly supplying Microsoft business solutions such as intranets office 365 and cloud and web parts, it is located in London (Sunlin, 2012) (Sung & Ashton, 2013).
2. Business cases of Content and Code Ltd and Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd
In recent years the human resource departments in most companies has innovated ways to make employees more productive. High performance Work practices (HPWPs) has been closely linked to the performance of most organizations in previous researches. This particular research uses the two companies to review and compare their high performance Work Practices (HPWPs) as well as the Performance

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